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The Eastern Han Dynasty: A History of China

The Eastern Han Dynasty: A History of China

Wang, Hui

Paperback

Series: History of China, Book 8

Ancient History GeneralChinese HistoryGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 9189998170
ISBN13: 9789189998179
Publisher: Hui Wang
Published: Mar 15 2025
Pages: 394
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

A struggling provincial officer, short on food and long on enemies, is asked to marry for politics, gamble on impossible battles, and trust men who may betray him tomorrow. He hesitates, he compromises, and then-almost quietly-he becomes the man who will rebuild an empire.
This book tells the rise of Liu Xiu, the future Emperor Guangwu, not as a distant legend but as a sequence of sharp, human choices. You watch him bargain away personal happiness to secure an alliance, burn evidence of treachery to keep his army united, and ride unguarded into the ranks of surrendered rebels to win loyalty through sheer nerve. Around him, rivals collapse in spectacular fashion: a self-declared emperor exposed and defeated, a court so corrupt it inspires satirical songs, and a teenage cowherd abruptly turned into a puppet ruler by a rebel army. The story moves with the urgency of a campaign-sieges, betrayals, sudden reversals-yet never loses sight of the people behind the titles.

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